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S2 Ep43: The cost of dying
Season 2 · Episode 43

S2 Ep43: The cost of dying

VoxTalks Economics

October 25, 201918m 2s

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Show Notes

How much is spent on end-of-life care, and who foots the bill? Eric French of UCL tells Tim Phillips about the total cost of the last year of our lives, and how different countries have very different ideas of who should pay it.

Read about the research at VoxEU.org, and download the VoxEU book about the economics of ageing.